Week 11

Everything here is just stuff I wanted to remember from this blog post:
http://myfavoritekindofcrazy.com/classical-conversations-cycle-2-week-11-2/
It's fantastic.  Go check it out.

Math - Cubes

English

Indefinite Pronouns

Worksheet
https://www.teachervision.com/tv/printables/TCR/LaughLearnGrammar_21-22_key.pdf

History

http://www.versailles3d.com/en/the-versailles-3d-projects/shamble-at-versailles.html

This website is great!  Games to play and lots to discover.

Science

Music

How To Teach Little Kids Rocket Science

I have no idea.

If you really want to know find another blog.

But here is how I'm going to attempt it!

Here is a link to the terms we will discuss:
http://www.ulalaunch.com/site/pages/Education_RocketScience.shtml

Here's a great link from NASA.

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/153415main_Rockets_How_Rockets_Work.pdf

At the end these questions are asked.

- How can you create enough thrust to 

exceed the weight of the rocket? 

- What structural materials and propellant 

combinations should you use?

- How big will the rocket have to be? 

- How can you make the rocket go where 

you want it to? 

- How can you bring it back to Earth 

safely? 

I think this will be our starting point.  

Save the link for later reference this year, but it's a little much for my 4 and 5 year olds to get all the way into!

Here are the ways we are going to experiment with the above questions at school and at home this week:

http://preschoolalphabet.blogspot.com/2012/02/rubber-band-rocket-launcher.html

http://www.exploratorium.edu/afterschool/activities/index.php?activity=134&firstDisplayedItem=2

This experiment helps kids explore what to add to the rocket to make it go in the direction they want it to go.

And lastly a fun way to discuss what to use as a propellant! 

Moon

We were loving some documentaries about the sun and the planets and then we got to the moon...

I thought we would find a documentary on the moon to show the kids too.  But when I watched a few documentaries about the moon I was conflicted about showing them to my kids.  The first one I watched was a BBC documentary called Do We Really Need the Moon?  You can find it on YouTube.  The narrator does some awesome, simple experiments that I really liked.  But her obsession with the moon, and the ideas that it rammed into earth and would wobble away from Earth weren't what I wanted to discuss with my kids this week.
After watching a few other documentaries I decided to just keep it simple and only use the phases of the moon as memory work this week.  We made the fun project with oreos and talked about the moon when we saw it outside.

As a nice conclusion to my week, the sermon at church yesterday was on Isaiah 65:17

New Heavens and a New Earth

17 "Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered,nor will they come to mind. 

I enjoyed the sermon on God's timing.  It was refreshing to be reminded that God has a plan for Heaven and Earth. And to put all the scientific, evolutionary experiments and beliefs back into perspective.  To realize that we can try to name, and research, and figure out how everything works, but ultimately God is in control and everything will happen in His time.  So that was our week with the phases of the moon.  Or my week with them rather.  Sometimes its just not worth over complicating things for the kids.

Off Week Extras

We watched this documentary on the Mars rover Curiosity this morning.  I recommend it!

This weeks library books.

Plus we like to get the scholastic books about the countries we are studying and look the pictures and highlights.

Fun on the tin whistle?  Can you name the types of notes here?  Can you play this between F# and G for some good right hand practice? (Or E and F as pictured.)